Zora Neale Hurston: And A History Of Southern Life (Critical Perspectives On The P) ISBN-13: 9781592132898

ISBN-13: 9781592132898

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Tiffany Ruby Patterson

Details: A historian hoping to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or the segregated black sections of other towns in the South finds only scant traces of their existence. In Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, Tiffany Ruby Patterson uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to augment the few official documents, newspaper accounts, and family records that pertain to these places hidden from history. Hurstons ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces as well as the Negro farthest down in labor camps. Patterson shows how Hurstons work complements the fragmented historical record, using the folklore and stories to provide a full description of these people of these towns as active human subjects, shaped by history and shaping their private world. Beyond the view and domination of whites in these spaces, black people created their own codes of social behavior, honor, and justice. In Pattersons view Hurston renders her subjects faithfully and with respect for their individuality and endurance, enabling all people to envision an otherwise inaccessible world.

Release Date: 01-06-2005

Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English

Edition: 1

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 248